>"Still, some consumers say they will tip generously during the holidays"

"The FDA gained the power to regulate new tobacco products in 2009."

>"The tipped wage scale allows restaurants to pay workers less than the legal minimum wage. Some _...Read More_

"While President Biden and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell chairman insist rising prices will prove short-lived, their effects are still being felt."

>"The need for social distancing led restaurants and grocery stores to seek technological help. That may improve productivity, but could also _...Read More_

"The pandemic disrupted New York’s economy of social exclusion. So the city’s hottest restaurant moved the party to Miami."

"Food prices are sky high, restaurants don’t have enough workers and shoppers are sending clothes back too fast for apparel makers to keep up. Labor shortages and production bottlenecks are weighing down companies just as the economy begins _...Read More_

""However welcome this bounceback, it contains dangers – in the housing market, in the event of another Covid wave, and in terms of righting a lopsided economy"

I just got let go from my job making 15.50$ an hour to handle radioactive equipment on construction sites. We have something terrible wrong with our corporate culture if Dunkin Donuts is paying 0.50$ less than skilled labor.

"The competing demands of work and motherhood have some white-collar women choosing part-time work—and loving it."

"Landlords cut small retailers a break on rent during the pandemic, but stores are still struggling because too few office workers and tourists have returned."

Fast food costs are not labor intensive. Total labor costs in fast food average about 25% Doubling all employee pay and passing 100% to consumer would raise prices 12.5%. _...Read More_

"In Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, the pandemic brought more change to a neighborhood in flux, as locals rallied around their restaurants."

"An extended winter lockdown has shaken the usual arrangement between landlords and tenants ahead of a government review of leasing legislation."